VoiceMap: Audio Tours & Guides 4+

500 cities: London, NYC, Paris

Audio Guide

    • 4.8 • 108 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Experience the magic of GPS audio walks, cycles, drives and even boat rides with VoiceMap's self-guided tours in over 500 destinations worldwide.

VoiceMap tours are like podcasts that move with you, to tell stories about what you’re seeing right now. They're produced by insightful local storytellers, including journalists, filmmakers, novelists, podcasters, and tour guides. Sir Ian McKellen has even created a tour.

Why use VoiceMap?

• Explore at your own pace instead of being herded along in a group. Start and stop tours whenever you like, to grab a drink or take in the view, then tap Resume to pick up exactly where you left off.
• Focus on your surroundings, not the screen. With automatic GPS playback, you can just tap on Start and let VoiceMap guide you.
• Avoid expensive roaming fees or fiddly connection issues. After you download a tour, VoiceMap works offline and includes an offline map.
• Enjoy tours as many times as you like, both in your destination and with your feet up, at home. Virtual Playback turns every tour into a podcast or audio book.
• Extend your attention span with indoor tours that help you make the most of your time at a growing range of museums and art galleries around the world.
• With over 1,700 free and paid tours in 75 countries, VoiceMap offers huge variety. There are over 100 tours in London alone!

Press:
“High-quality self-guided walking tours...Narrated by local experts, they provide insight into corners of the city sometimes overlooked by regular guided tours.”
Lonely Planet

“We may be biased, but could there be anything more helpful than having a journalist in your pocket when touring a new city? How about a historian, a novelist or just a really passionate local? VoiceMap culls city-specific stories from them all and fits them neatly into walking tours.”
New York Times

User Testimonials:
"Perfect for solo travelling on your own schedule! Downloaded for a trip to Europe and will be continuing to use it on my next travels."
App Store review, Vialetter

“My wife and I really enjoyed exploring Bruges at our own pace with this audio tour, and there were some memorable stories that the narrator shared. Also, the app worked great in relation to the location-based services. We easily followed the map and the audio was triggered in the appropriate spots. In comparison to the packs of people wandering the city with tour guides, this was a much better fit for us.”
Viator review, Rick A

“Great quality information - interesting and entertaining. The time flew by. And no waffle! This is far better than any other guided tour we found - they are much more expensive and far less informative. And you can do this tour any time, any day, at your own pace, and even do it twice!”
Tripadvisor review, Carcassonne 's Medieval Walls: A Self-Guided Tour

"Thoroughly recommend. Really enjoyed the tour. Very well done. Packed with information and took me round streets I’d never have thought to walk round. An audio and visual treat. Thank you."
Janet, NYC

“It was enjoyable to be under no time pressure to freely roam the city of Pisa as we so pleased. Wandering from attraction to attraction. The app is clever, concise and easy to use! Would do again - especially with another person or solo traveler.”
GetYourGuide review, Grace L

“Great value for money, interesting and very clear and easy to follow! I learnt lots about London I didn't already know and I have lived here over 30 years.”
London’s Alternative History Tour, Carmella V.

** Just so you know, GPS runs in the background while you're on a tour. This decreases battery life and it's best to start a tour with your device fully charged.

What’s New

Version 14.2.0

In transit? Listen to podcasts by VoiceMap’s tour publishers when you’re at the airport, on a train or taking a roadtrip.

A number of our most popular publishers are also podcasters with shows that build context around their audio tours, including:

• Annie Sargent, who has eight self-guided tours of Paris, but also hosts Join Us in France, with over 500 episodes of tips
• Mike Corradi, whose 22 VoiceMap tours are a perfect complement to his podcast chronicling the history of Italy from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire to the present
• Republic of Amsterdam Radio, which has an enlightening tour of the Red Light District as well as a show that follows “the incredible journey of the world’s most influential swamp”

You’ll find podcasts listed under the publisher’s profile, where you can start listening or follow them to get notifications when they release a new episode.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
108 Ratings

108 Ratings

PeanutAlive ,

VoiceMap changed the way I travel

If I’d known about VoiceMap earlier, I could have escaped years of inflexible, expensive guide-led tours on my travels, most of which left me feeling disappointed and herded. VoiceMap tours offer flexibility, authenticity, and simplicity. I don’t see myself taking traditional tours ever again, for as long as there are VoiceMap tours available wherever I travel. Highly recommend.

Joshua ZA ,

Quality issues?

After about 10 to 15 attempts I finally was able to purchase my tour for my school assessment.

Seems like the purchasing through family sharing needs more testing or alternatively a voucher system, as you likely to miss the chance to enjoy the Voice Maps for a location you arrived to. Also noticed other bugs while swiping between comments, about, on tour etc. with the screen not showing up and app seems very slow.

Looking forward to using it tomorrow. Hope it holds up.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback Joshua. There was a bug affecting the interface for comments on tours and other components of the tour detail screen. It was fixed in our most recent update, at the beginning of this week. Would you mind confirming this for us, on your device? You can email iain@voicemap.me.

I'd also love to know more about the problem you had buying the tour with family sharing. I suspect that this was on Apple's end, as we just validate a receipt from them.

I hope you enjoyed actually doing the tour! That's the trickiest and most important part of VoiceMap.

TaylaCal ,

Unbeatable Quality

The guide did a great job at mapping the route to ensure we weren’t just seeing the main attraction, but surrounding area and hidden gems. It was my first time using the app in a very busy area where ordinarily, I would not have known where to go to make the most of it. This really enhanced our first trip to the area.

(Hoan Kiem Lake Tour)

App Privacy

The developer, Audio Guide, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

  • Identifiers

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Purchases
  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • User Content
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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